Indians, Europeans and Africans dancing together
Brahmananda das : In Kenya, the Indians, they donated everything. I actually didn't have to spend any money. Food and flowers and car, gasoline, because the Indians, they did all the commercial activity. I literally could just go to any store and whatever I wanted I could take. Prabhupada, when he came once he asked me am I keeping accounts. I said, "No, Prabhupada." He said, "Oh, why you are not keeping?" I said, "Because I'm not spending anything." He said, "Oh, that's perfect accounting." When I first came to Africa, I was afraid to preach to the Africans. I had been arrested in Turkey previously for having Harinam on the street. I had a bad experience in these other countries, these other cultures. So when Prabhupada came, he saw I was preaching only to the Indians. He didn't like it at all and he said, "If you do not preach to the Africans, then I will do it." And then he arranged with some Indian leaders to get a hall in an African area, and he told the devotees to just throw open the doors and have kirtan. They did that, and immediately the hall filled up with hundreds and hundreds of people. Prabhupada was just insistent on preaching to the Africans. He didn't want any discrimination. Preaching should be done to the indigenous people, not just the Indians. "Indians, Europeans and Africans dancing together," that was his final instruction to me.
Reference: Following Srila Prabhupada-A Chronological Series by Brahmananda Dasa
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